The
bible story tells that the whale swallowed Jonah for not obeying God's
command. My painting shows an abstraction of a whale, the boat he was
thrown over board from and a dark square with Jonah contemplating his
fate.

I
was influenced by the artist Albert Pinkham Ryder and his painting Jonah
188595; oil, 27 1/4 x 34 3/8 in., now in the collection of the
Smithsonian American Art Musuem